Atheism Quote by George H. Smith

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.

— Immanuel Kant

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at…

— Anonymous

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the…

— Erich Fromm

“If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem…

— Scott Adams

Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has…

— Max Horkheimer

If some things dont make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Reason helps us to understand that other people, wherever they are, are like us, that they can suffer as we can. ¦ So I…

— Suman Rai

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

— Reinhard Bendix

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

— Bertrand Russell

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because…

— Steven Pinker

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they…

— Immanuel Kant